A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.